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H. P. STURGES.

BUILDING.

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Application :filed December 23, 1920. Serial No. 432,683. n

To all wwme' may concern: L

Be it known thatl,.`HowAnn P.. STURGns,

a citizen of the United States, 'residing at Glenellyn, in theco'untyofDu vPage and State of illinois, havevinvented certain new and usefulimprovements in Buildings, of which `the following is4 a specifica-tion.

i This invention relates to the construction and arrangement ofbuildings, but more y particularly of such buildings -as are in .tendedfor commercial purposes, and has for itsprimary object to provide a'practical and" advantageous. construction which will permit automobilesto be driven under their own power to the various Hoors and there withthestores, oiiices or other places business located on such floors.

Another object of the invention is to provide a winding driveway havinga parking strip extending substantially longitudinally thereof andcontiguousl thereto to permit automobiles to enter the strip at anypoint along the driveway. y

A further object of the invention is to provide a relative arrangementof the driveway, the parking strip, and the stores or oflces on thevarious iioors, whereby the parked automobiles willnnot obstruct theentrances to the stores or offices located on the driveway or the viewof show-windows or display-stands of these stores from the driveway.

The rapid increase in the number of auto-4 mobiles, particularly in thelarger cities, has made necessary traiic regulations which either forbidentirely the parking of automobiles in the public streetsin the morecongested districts or have so limited the time in whichl an automobilemay remain lin these streets that automobile owners have eitherbeenprevented from driving to and from their places ot business, orcompelled to leave their cars at a remote garage.

in a building of my improved type, it is possible to park cars in, the;building in which theowner has an oitice, store, or otherA place ofbusiness, and there'is; practically no delay in enteringuor'leaving'this building. An inclined driveway communicates with thevarious `floors of the building, and the offices or stores haveentrances. on this driveway. -A parking 'strip is provided along theedge of the driveway, so that a car maybe turned from the driveway onto'this strip at any point where there is anunlthe accompanying drawingsshowing a selected embodiment thereof, in which 2y 'F ig. 1 -is a iioorplan of the irstoi' street ioorg' liig. 2 is-a iioor plan ofthe secondfloor;

Fig. 3 is a floor plan of the seventh and all floors above;y L y Fig. tis a -verticali section on Athe line 5L- t of'lig. 1;-

Fig. 5 is a verticaljsection on the line 5- 5 otFigl;

lFig. 6 is a vertical section onthe' line 6,-@ of Fig. l.

Referring to the drawings, the buiiding forming the invention isconstructed with. an, outer wall? which consists ,of a front 8,

a rear 9 and side walls 10 and 11. For the y purpose ot illustration,the walls 9 and l() are assumed to abut on neighboring-buildings, andthe walls-8 and l1 to 'face on str eets.- A winding driveway 12 entersthe building from the front and follows the wall 10 nearly to the rearthereof, where it turns and follows the rear wall, turns again near thewalt 11 and follows this wallto the front ot the building, where itagain turns and follows the front wall to a point above the entrance..-'lihe angie of inclination would naturally vary with the size of thebuilding, but lthave found it advantageous to make this incline veryradual in orderV tha-tears may be easily driven in and out. in theportion of the driveway extending from the entrance along' the wall l0vthere is a rise of eight feet and a like rise takes place in theportion of the driveway extending along the rear wall. This amount ofrise is based on the assumption that the height of thetirst story issixteen feet, so that with the rise' described the driveway will'havereached theA height of the second story when it turns forwardly alongthe wall 11. The portion of the driveway alongthe walls 8 and 11 is inthe present embodiment constructed horizontal. 'lhe rise of the drivewayfrom the second to the third floor takes place in the second convolutionalong the walls '10 and 9, so that the third iioor is reached when'thedriveway again turns towards the front. Successive rises take place fbetween each of the iioors with which the driveway conmmunicates. ltwould probbe parked at any point along this driveway without interferingwith the movement of cars therein. The paths tobe followed by theautomobiles in enteringand leaving are indicated by lines in Fig. 2, andat the front corner 14 l have provided suiiicient space to' permit carsto turn around. The courses of the cars in entering and leaving thebuilding may bemarked by painted lines on the floors of .the driveway.lA partition 15 eX- tends longitudinally of the inner edge of thedriveway and separates the area devoted to stores or oflices from thisdriveway. The

building in the present embodiment is pro-'- vided with an inner wall 16forning a een#` ltral court` and the space between the partition 15 andthis wall may be subdivided'in any suitable manner.A All offices orstores within this area would have their' entrances on. the driveway andportions ofthe partition may be constructed of glass to provideshow-'windows in case the area within this partition is to beutilizedfor stores.

vA portion of the lower or street ioor of thev building has beenseparated from the rest of the building by partition 17 to form aseparate entrance hall at 18 communicating with `the elevators191serving the seventh and higher floors.. Elevators Q0 are pro floors.4

In the present embodiment, the first floor ofthe building has beendesigned for use as a single store, and the space vbeneath the firstrise of the driveway, following the wall 10, could be utilized forstorage purposes. The

vided to take care of the second to the sixth' portion of the drivewayalong the rear wall would be sufficiently raised above the store floorto .make it available'for general merchandising, as it is eight feet atits lowest and sixteen feet at its highest point. A sky light'of theusual type would be constructed 'over the portion of the store beneaththe court. The stores on the second and succeeding floors facing thedriveway at the rear of the building would have their floors disposedrelative to the incline of the driveway as is indicated at 21, and thesame would be true of the stores facing the wall 10 on these floors. f

- ...It will'thus be seen that a car may be driveninto the building onthe. driveway and parked onanyconvenient ioor. The position of theentrance to the driveway and the directionof .the convolutions wouldnaturally depend upon thelocation of the building relative-to the street.and adjacent buildings, for it is desirable to utilize asfar aspossible lfor the inclination of the driveway, the sides of the buildinghaving blank walls. It will be readil'yfevidentthatthe rise of thedriveway may take place wholly along one side of the building or may becontinuous for an 'entire convolution', de: pending upon the type ofbuilding and the particular use for which it is intended.

I am aware that many changes might Vbe made in the construction andarrangement` as `describedwithout` departing from* the spirit of .Infinvention', and- Preserve the right toma eall su'clrras .fairly fallwithin the scope ofthe following claims.- l I claim:` "W f 1. Abuildingvhavinguian wall, an

inner wall, an .inclined windingfdifiveway betweensaid walls,I a parkingspace along said driveway and va series of. enclosures or roomsiformedalong said driveway andcommunicating therewith. v.

2. A building having-an outer wall, an inner wall, an inclined'windingdriveway between said wallsv7 a series `of partitions lforming with oneof said'walls a lseriesof rooms. along said driveway and communieatingtherewith -andjja parking space formed along said driveway adjacent theother wall. y 3. A building 'having an enclosing wall, an

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inclined winding driveway within said building, a series of enclosuresor rooms along said driveway and Vcommunicating therewith, 'and aparking spacefor vehicles along porf tions of said driveway oppositesaid' rooms.

4. A building having an outerJ wall, an l HOWARD r." srunaensjj;

